"Published on the occasion of the international exhibition organized by the Hayward Gallery, London, 13 May-27 June, 1999 in collaboration with Secession Vienna and capcMusee d'art contemporain de Bordeaux."
""A city is a plane of tarmac with some red hot spots of intensity," Rem Koolhaas, the pathbreaking architect and author of such semiotically seminal books as Delirious New York and the more recent S, M, L, XL, remarked in 1969. More than 30 years later, there are more of those hot spots around the world than ever, and they're getting hotter every day. Globalization, standardization, and the high-speed innovations of our current informa ..."
"Nel 1991, Hans Ulrich Obrist organizza il suo primo "Kitchen Show", un'esposizione nella cucina dell'appartamento dove vive a San Gallo, in Svizzera. All'epoca ha solo ventitr?? anni. Troppo giovane per curare mostre in musei o gallerie, ha deciso insieme a Peter Fischli e David Weiss di sperimentare questa nuova strada: portare l'arte fuori dai circuiti canonici e inserirla in uno spazio raccolto, per recuperare l'intimit?? nel rapport ..."
Mondialite(1st Edition) Or the Archipelagos of Edouard Glissant द्वारा Asad Raza, Hans-UlrichObrist Hardcover, 356 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2017 द्वारा Editions Skira Paris ISBN-13: 978-2-37074-057-1, ISBN: 2-37074-057-4
"In our current moment, there is much to remind one of the international debates swirling around cosmopolitanism at the beginning of the 20th century. Today, homogenizing forces are leading to extinctions, both through environmental degradation and the disappearance of cultural phenomena, yet at the same time, to refuse the forces of globalization risks returning to dangerous forms of neo-localism and neo-nationalism. Returning to a key ..."
"One Minute Sculptures 1997-2017Buch mit Leinen-EinbandDie ikonischen One Minute Sculptures von Erwin Wurm (geb.1954 in Bruck an der Mur) laden Ausstellungsbesucher ein, mit vorhandenen Objekten, den Anweisungen des Künstlers folgend, kurzlebige Skulpturen zu realisieren. Levitieren, Luft anhalten und an Spinoza denken, sich wegwerfen oder ein Terrorist sein... für eine Minute. Kurz, aber doch lange genug, um die Banalität, die Lächerlic ..."
"Los Angeles-based artist and writer Walead Beshty (born 1976) started his Industrial Portraits series in 2008. He realizes them wherever he goes, asking all the art people he works with to pose in their working environment and working clothes: studio assistants, gallery staff, curators, lab technicians, critics, fellow artists, collectors, art handlers and even the -machines, - which contribute to an artwork's progress from studio to ga ..."
"Reflecting on 20 years of making art, Jeff Koons talks to Hans Ulrich Obrist about his vocation and its frequently controversial highlights. Koons makes acknowledgement here of determinative influences such as Marcel Duchamp, Salvador Dalí and Andy Warhol, and elucidates his sense of the legacy of Pop art and his own transformations of that legacy. Koons emerges from this volume as a charmingly open and very focused artist, with strong ..."
"The sixth Gerhard Richter title by HENI Publishing offers a comprehensive account of a largely unexplored aspect of the practice of this widely celebrated artist.The catalogue documents Richter's series of Overpainted Photographs, which he began creating inthe mid 1980s and still engages with today.These works feature informal photographs-often snapshots of the artist's personal life- subsequently obscured under layers of paint. Richter ..."
"The first monograph on the world-renowned Norwegian contemporary artist Bjarne Melgaard, whose far-reaching work often deals with complex issues such as homoeroticism, addiction, and AIDS. Australian-born Norwegian artist Bjarne Melgaard started his career in the mid-1990s with neo-expressionistic painting, sculpture, and installation. Organized chaos is one of his main principles in composition and content. His intense way of attacking ..."
"Published to accompany the exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, London in November 2006, In the darkest hour there may be light provides a revealing and concise overview of Damien Hirst's murderme collection to date. As Julia Peyton-Jones puts it in the Director's Foreword to this beautifully produced catalogue, "Damien Hirst's groundbreaking and controversial work has made him one of the world's best-known living artists. From the sta ..."
"Conversation changes people. Since meeting in 2008, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian have held numerous conversations that have brought to life the incredible saga of this Iranian pioneer and had a transformative effect on Obrist himself."
"Celebrating the eponymous Moleskine travelling exhibition which, since 2006, has showcased, in various cities around the world, a unique collection of more than 250 Moleskine notebooks that have been decorated, hacked, and sketched, delivering an intimate insight into the authors' creative process and showing the endless possibilities that arise from using paper. It includes works by Ron Arad, Marti Guixe, Ross Lovegrove, Karim Rashid, ..."
"This catalogue shows Summer 2014 Kensington Gardens becoming a destination for devotees of the 'pioneer of performance art' as Marina Abramovic takes up residence at the Serpentine Gallery. Following her major retrospective The Artist is Present at MoMa in 2010, the celebrated artist creates a brand new performance for the exhibition as well as works from throughout her career, re-performed for the first time since their original presen ..."
"... Karen Marta, Kevin McGarry, Isabela Mora, Ella Obrist, Suzanne Pagé,
Philippe Parreno, Julia Peyton-Jones, Alex Poots, Alice Rawsthorn, Beatrix Ruf,
Anri Sala, Tino Sehgal, Nancy Spector, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Lorraine Two and
Dasha Zhukova. In addition, I would like to thank the book's editor, the excellent
and unreasonably patient Helen Conford; the book's agent, the steadfast Kevin
Conroy Scott; its copy-editor, Richard Mason; ..."
"The 2014 Serpentine Pavilion is designed by Chilean architect Smiljan Radic (born 1965) as a multipurpose social space with a café. A semi-translucent, cylindrical structure that resembles a shell and rests on large quarry stones, its torus-shaped fiberglass shell resembles the cast-off chrysalis of some bulbous insect."
"Published alongside an exhibition at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London (5 March - 21 April 2014).Serpentine Galleries has invited influential London-based Italian designer Martino Gamper to guest-curate a new exhibition and to edit ..."
"This book is designed as an introduction to the work of Egyptian artist Wael Shawky, to accompany his exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery and was co-produced by Sharjah Art Foundation.."